Ida B. Wells was born in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. As a teen-ager, her family was hit with yellow fever, a deadly disease. She lost both her mom and her dad, along with one sibling. This left her to take care of the other four siblings. There wa
The child of slave parents, Wells initiated her long and dedicated struggle for equality for blacks by sitting in a whites-only railroad coach. She was forcibly removed, after which she instituted a legal suit, which she won.
Born of slaves, Ida B. Wells-Barnett fought to stop the lynching of Black Americans, carrying her fight to the White House. In 1898 she was part of a delegation to President McKinley demanding government action in the case of a Black postmaster who had b
1864-1931) Ida B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, months before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. She was the oldest of eight children. When her parents died in 1880 as a result of a yellow fever plague in Holly Springs, Wells to
Although Ida Wells-Barnett was a well-known journalist in her time, she is more remembered for her anti-lynching campaigns. She actively fought racism all her life, even biting the hand of a train conductor that tried to get her to sit in the "blacks
Ida B. Wells was a courageous and outspoken woman who conducted an incredible crusade against black oppression on the pages of newspapers and the lecture platform from the post-Reconstruction period until her death in 1931.
As the leader of the national anti-lynching movement, Wells-Barnett joined a group of Illinois congressmen who visited the White House in March 1898, to protest the murder of the newly-appointed Lake City, South Carolina Postmaster Baker, who was black. W
